https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to james dobson en https://religiondispatches.org/2025/08/28/i-will-always-be-afraid-james-dobson Focus on the Family founder Dr. James C. Dobson died last week, and there was much rejoicing —particularly among people whose families of origin subscribed to Dobson’s punitively patriarchal and rigidly heteronormative approach to child-rearing and marriage. ___ The summer… Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:33:43 EDT Sara J. Moslener 03f950fd-9d22-476e-b1f3-621631e90342 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/05/19/james-dobsons-family-values-were-influenced-eugenicist-audio This exclusive three-minute clip, featuring historian Audrey Clare Farley, is from the May 17 episode of Straight White American Jesus, a podcast hosted by Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller. RD will be collaborating with SWAJ to regularly bring you audio… Wed, 19 May 2021 10:08:42 EDT Bradley Onishi f862caf6-f76b-4164-8d97-ae7706a14ad7 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/02/22/no-rush-limbaugh-did-not-hijack-your-parents-christianity We’ve all heard the stories, and some of us have seen it with our own eyes. The kind, noble, God-fearing uncle, father, or family friend—the salt-of-the-earth Christian man who, a decade or more ago, came under the influence of talk… Mon, 22 Feb 2021 03:25:45 EST Kristin Kobes Du Mez 635eda5f-7842-44d7-a0d0-b51020dd7616 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/01/28/i-grew-evangelical-and-christian-nationalist-insurrection-did-not-surprise-me On Wednesday, January 6, I, like almost everyone else in America, watched as a mob of predominantly white domestic terrorists stormed the Capitol, in an attempt to prevent the Senate from certifying the electoral college vote in favor of Joseph… Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:39:30 EST Deirdre Sugiuchi 9b27a65d-ed5c-46fa-9d30-1129d55133bb https://religiondispatches.org/2018/07/12/pro-family-movement-has-little-say-about-family-separation Unlike the vast majority of the pro-family movement, which is almost exclusively white and middle-class, these separations have largely affected people of color. Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:58:53 EDT Sophie Bjork-James 3c0355be-d3e1-43d2-a9fb-7ea5892d9575 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/06/20/christian-worldview-revealed-sessions-use-romans-13 This view of government did not spring into existence with this administration or with the Truth Project—Focus users have been learning it for decades. Wed, 20 Jun 2018 04:21:44 EDT Susan B. Ridgely 87581c28-b180-4e61-885e-e1eea2bae767 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/27/dobsons-baby-trumps-baptism-evangelical-washing-font Donald Trump is now a ” baby Christian”? Now that Trump has become the presumptive GOP nominee—the old guard has stepped forward to engage in an ancient ritual of the Right, dating back to the Reagan years: evangelical-washing. Trump has… Mon, 27 Jun 2016 08:22:25 EDT Jonathan Russell aca5f5eb-31fb-4caf-9817-d67f27b8dc71 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/03/cruz-and-evangelical-illusion Just after Christmas, Ted Cruz met with several hundred evangelical leaders at a Texas ranch belonging to Farris Wilks, a fracking billionaire who, along with his brother Dan and their wives, have donated $15 million to Keep the Promise II… Sun, 03 Jan 2016 04:16:56 EST Sarah Posner a7f308dd-7264-492c-9ead-10e841e895aa https://religiondispatches.org/2013/04/11/third-party-publicity-stunt Social conservatives claim they will bolt the GOP over gay marriage. Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:20:32 EDT Sarah Posner 805afa4b-52a4-4525-8643-b787198587f5 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/02/04/megachurch-pastor-were-american-al-qaeda-opposing-homosexuality The day after it was announced that Louie Giglio, an Atlanta pastor, founder of the Passion movement and campaigner against human trafficking, had been chosen to deliver the benediction at President Obama’s second inauguration, an old sermon of his surfaced. OK, it didn’t… Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:01:19 EST Tom Bartlett a7d8e407-c51b-4272-ad70-460a03a1dd38 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/01/14/new-disciples-report-south-carolina Across South Carolina—and indeed the country—voters attend tiny churches, Bible studies, and prayer meetings. Their collective views on the candidates are much more difficult to measure and assess. And while they may be consumers of Christian talk radio, or televangelism, or other religious media, they are not lock-step followers of the decisions of elites who met at a ranch in Texas, or of Jim Bob Duggar, or of anything but their own received revelation. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:11:31 EST Sarah Posner 1077c48b-0a06-424d-83a6-95cf633a4e6f https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/26/obituary-right-wing-evangelicalism Satirist and right-wing watcher Becky Garrison imagines a memorial for a movement. Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:49:42 EST Becky Garrison 5efbd675-36bf-42a5-87d6-af367eb51abc https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/20/everything-was-better-when-we-had-god-our-schools Wasn’t it? Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:39:45 EST Hollis Phelps 8d9a1cb8-2c32-4a3c-93e3-1fc57fba3158 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/19/video-why-huckabee-dobson-are-wrong-newtown Listen up evangelicals and conservative Christians. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:20:12 EST Anthea Butler 45652193-0bb3-4613-ae8e-a778c1dbe2a8 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/08/conservative-christianity-and-its-discontents How did Rick Santorum roll over Mitt Romney in all those primary states? Where did the energy come from? While pundits still insist that he won’t topple the moneyed Mitt—whose campaign still generates about as much excitement as the winter sport of curling—Santorum is holding onto the spotlight long enough to put religious populism front and center. Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:11:06 EDT Karl Giberson, Randall J. Stephens aec7b63a-2d9f-4b75-bc82-8bff3c9b41e3 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/07/11/change-possible-shifting-ex-gay-question Exodus International appears to be re-thinking its commitment to transforming gay Christians into straight ones. So now it is the larger world’s turn to ask: is that kind of change really possible? Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:50:33 EDT Lynne Gerber 3ebfa516-beef-468f-936d-0e838e38b173 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/01/18/james-dobson-and-tale-two-women Karen Santorum: praiseworthy. Callista Gingrich: slut. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:48:19 EST Sarah Posner 87c2c5e4-c55b-4d3a-ba29-8f303aac70be https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/20/evangelical-why-do-many-evangelicals-get-science-creationist Religion and science in couples therapy. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:58:02 EDT Paul Wallace fa657e19-5b25-4aa2-a6d3-916a941b4a57 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/20/dialogue-or-demonization-where-gays-are-concerned-focus-family-wants-it-both-ways But even while the language and the tone of anti-gay evangelical groups is beginning to shift, the reality is that while the language of anti- bullying has been adopted by groups like Focus on the Family, the theological and ideological currents that produce the reality of anti- gay bullying remain unquestioned. Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:48:07 EDT Cody J. Sanders 16b9c357-cd07-4502-abfe-b9c9894f7160 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/02/18/islamophobia-industrial-complex It long predates Beck. Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:47:29 EST Sarah Posner 135c92db-66cf-45e9-b5d2-21c2b088b12c https://religiondispatches.org/2011/02/16/divided-pro-life-movement Making abortion illegal vs. making it unnecessary. Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:51:48 EST Julie Ingersoll a9582e22-b882-4535-a899-d11d61787af2 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/06/08/simmering-anger-may-drive-religious-right-back-polls Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:39:32 EDT Daniel Schultz a565c4bf-6e07-4006-b5b6-188e2687d24f https://religiondispatches.org/2010/06/01/rand-paul-we-wouldnt-need-laws-if-everyone-were-christian Republican Senate candidate’s religion appears to trump the law. Is he a Christian Reconstructionist? Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:27:26 EDT Sarah Posner f308bf87-0f7b-4e18-bd17-4577ec7abd64 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/05/13/anti-gay-crusader-still-not-out Pity poor George Rekers. Thu, 13 May 2010 06:22:43 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge 029644e5-7fdd-4f14-baae-0f17874801e2 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/05/05/shockedtotally-shocked-anti-gay-crusader-caught-male-prostitute It was just for sharing the Gospel. Wed, 05 May 2010 08:20:36 EDT Candace Chellew-Hodge b8ea0068-f2ea-46fe-9251-f4e5ac1fd828